Tow truck driver shot and killed in Park Manor
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CHICAGO (STMW) - A tow truck driver was shot and killed Thursday morning in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood.
Lutredze Evans, 32, was driving a flatbed tow truck northbound in the 6800 block of South Anthony about 9 a.m. when someone opened fire at him, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was shot multiple times in the chest and arms, but continued driving northbound until he crashed the truck into a viaduct at 68th and King, police said.
Evans, of the 8300 block of South Rhodes, was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:43 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.